Cream Puffs

One coffee cup boiling water, 1/2 cup butter, 1 heaping cup flour. Boil water, add butter, then stir in flour. Remove from stove and beat until smooth. When perfectly cold, stir into mixture 3 eggs, one at a time. Drop from spoon into a buttered pan. Bake about twenty minutes. Filling: 1 cup sugar, 1 quart milk. When boiling stir into it 2 tablespoons flour stirred smooth into a little cold milk. Add 1 egg well beaten. Flavor to taste. Carefully insert knife in one side of each puff and fill. Whipped cream may be used for filling.

Spice Cake

One cup dark brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour milk, with a teaspoon of soda, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 4 cups flour, 1 cup stoned raisins, 1 cup citron cut fine, 1/2 cup orange peel cut fine, 1 cup currants, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 of ginger, little nutmeg, flavoring and salt. Bake slowly until the cake will not stick to a broom straw. Will keep like fruit cake.

Cocoa Cake

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 1/2 cups flour, small 1/2 cup cocoa, mixed with flour. Stir in flour and whites of eggs last and beat well.

Sponge Cake

One cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon yeast powder, 2 tablespoons cream, 4 eggs. Beat all together a long time. Bake 20 minutes.

Plain Fritter Batter

Two eggs beaten separately. Add to yolks 1 small cup milk, 1 tablespoon sugar and pinch of salt; sift into a bowl 1 1/2 cups flour and 1 teaspoon yeast powder. Add the yolks and milk to the flour gradually to make a smooth batter and add the beaten whites last.

Scotch Fancies

One egg beaten light, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, 1 1/4 cups uncooked rolled oats. Drop from teaspoon into buttered tin and bake in a moderate oven.

Eggless Cookies

Two cups flour and 1-3 cup butter rubbed together, add 1 cup sugar and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Mix well and add 1/2 cup milk to which has been added 1/4 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon hot water. Add 2 teaspoons caraway seed, or 1/2 cup cocoanut or chopped nuts. Roll thin and bake in quick oven.

Lemon Cake

Cream together 1 cup sugar and 1-3 cup butter. Add 3 eggs beaten very light, 1 1/2 cups flour sifted twice with 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and pinch of salt, also the grated rind of 1 lemon. Beat rapidly for 5 minutes. Pour into a well-greased pan and bake in a slow oven. When done mix juice of 1 lemon with 2-3 cup sugar and spread over the top. An orange may be used instead of the lemon.